The firm that is today DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C., was founded in 1968 under the name DeConcini McDonald by Evo DeConcini, Dennis DeConcini and John R. McDonald.

Anyone familiar with Arizona and U.S. history will likely recognize those names as belonging to people who helped shape the state of Arizona and the United States Congress:

- Evo DeConcini served as a Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, Arizona Attorney General...

INTRODUCTION

The firm that is today DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C., was founded in 1968 under the name DeConcini McDonald by Evo DeConcini, Dennis DeConcini and John R. McDonald.

Anyone familiar with Arizona and U.S. history will likely recognize those names as belonging to people who helped shape the state of Arizona and the United States Congress:

- Evo DeConcini served as a Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, Arizona Attorney General, Pima County Superior Court Judge, and a member of the Arizona Board of Regents.

- Dennis DeConcini served as Pima County Attorney and represented Arizona in the United States Senate from 1977 until his retirement in 1995.

- John McDonald served as President of the Arizona School Boards Association.

Reflecting the historical impact of the DeConcinis in particular, several of Arizona’s landmark buildings bear the family name, including the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building and the DeConcini Port of Entry at the United States/Mexico border crossing.

The attorneys and staff of DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy take pride in our reputation of commitment to the communities in which we live and work. This commitment is reflected in our pro bono, civic, and philanthropic activities throughout Arizona.

Our attorneys and paralegals are recognized often by the State Bar of Arizona as well as the Volunteer Lawyers Program of Southern Arizona Legal Aid, Inc. (SALA) for providing services and legal expertise to those in our community who can least afford it. Requests for pro bono assistance are coordinated for the firm through the following organizations: Southern Arizona Legal Aid https://www.sazlegalaid.org/services and Step Up To Justice http://www.stepuptojustice.org/.

Members of the firm are active volunteers and take leadership roles in a variety of non-profit organizations such as the Arizona Historical Society, Arizona Kidney Foundation, Boy Scouts of America Catalina Council, Comstock Children’s Foundation, Arizona Public Media Community Advisory Board, Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, Make Way for Books; Patronato San Xavier; Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation; Tucson Botanical Gardens; and the YMCA of Southern Arizona, to name a few.

RESOURCES AND EXPERIENCE

DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C. conducts a full service, multidisciplinary practice. Our members possess the knowledge and experience to solve a wide spectrum of complex legal issues for our individual, business and governmental clients. The Firm provides clients with quality legal services at a reasonable cost by assigning attorneys and staff members based on knowledge, level of skill and experience. In addition, the Firm is able to provide combinations of attorneys and staff members with different areas of practice to solve issues that overlap more than one substantive area.

The Firm's clients include individuals and a wide range of public and private entities, including businesses involving automotive sales, banking, broadcast and communications, construction, equipment sales, retail sales, restaurants, financial, health services, insurance, mining and natural resource development, ranching, real estate finance and development, recreation, interstate transportation, and water service. We also represent a variety of governmental entities including the City of Tucson, Pima County, the State of Arizona, and numerous Arizona public school districts and community colleges, and have provided legal services to the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University.

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